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Re: [OM] Re NASA lens

Subject: Re: [OM] Re NASA lens
From: "John A. Prosper" <prosper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 19:08:15 -0400 (EDT)
On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, Giles wrote:

|So here is my hypothetical scenario - not worth the paper it isn't 
|printed on of course.
|
|Nasa gets the 180/2.8 in '84 or early '85, tests it and says it is the 
|sharpest 35mm lens they have tested to date and this gets reported in a 
|photo magazine.  Oly America are delighted but also slightly embarrased 
|because of he slight chromatic aberation.  Shortly after that, the 180/2 
|arrives hot from the skilled hands of the one guy who assembles them in 
|Japan and Oly America says to NASA - 'Psssst - have we got a lens for you 
|- try this one'  NASA does, likes it and it gets included in their lens 
|inventory which is later reported on by Modern Photography.

By George!  I think he's got it! ;-)




|Paul D. Farrar wrote:
|
|> >> I am wrong, it is not the 180/2, must be the f2.8.
|> >>  Giles
|
|> The story I heard is that it was the 180/2
|> Paul
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